The leader of the Party of Democratic Action (SDA), Bakir Izetbegovic, was correct when he criticised Milorad Dodik's supporters and his statement was intentionally falsely interpreted in order to “put him and Dodik in the same basket,” the party said on Thursday.
Speaking about what he thinks is behind Dodik’s policy and whether the Bosnian Serb political leader is serious when he keeps announcing the secession of the Bosnia’s Serb-majority Republika Srpska (RS) entity, Izetbegovic said that he believes Dodik wants to be remembered as a politician who kept the idea of secession open for some possible future times when such a thing would be possible.
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“He knows he can’t do it. And when they say ‘there are no bad people, there are only bad leaders’ – I’m not so sure about that. He is appealing to a large number of people who support a raw Balkan policy,” Izetbegovic stated.
When asked whether he was talking about the Serb people as a whole, he said that he was talking about “voters who are supporting him because they want his rude behaviour.”
The statement was widely condemned, mostly by party officials from the Republika Srpska entity who said it represented an expression of hate against Serbs. According to his critics, Izetbegovic said that Serbs are bad.
But the SDA said Izetbegovic was correct when argued that those who support Dodik should reconsider it because they are “supporting a policy of lies, insults and blockades, which will not bring any good to anyone, including Serbs.”
“Despite that, part of the media and the public, wanting to put Dodik and Izetbegovic in the same basket at all costs, deliberately take the words of the SDA leader out of context and misquote them. Based on words that Izetbegovic never uttered, they comment and make analyses,” the party said, stressing that Izetbegovic and Dodik, as well as their policies, could never be seen as equivalent.
It is obvious from the results of the recent election that not all Serbs support Dodik, the party said, adding that Dodik “not only insults Bosniaks, but also those Serbs who don’t want to follow his policy of insults, hate and chauvinism.”
“It is also a fact that a large number of voters in Republika Srpska vote for him, knowing full well that his policy is violent, chauvinistic and based on insulting people whose children and families have been killed,” it said.
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